lose caste
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.
Example Sentences
- "1808, “Moral Character of the Hindoos, in Their Interior Department” in The Literary Panorama, London: C. Taylor, Volume 3, p. 141, Attachment to a master, a family, or a government of a different religion, is that which cannot be produced in the mind of a Hindoo, while under the power of his Gooroo or his Depta. But if they lose caste, and embrace Christianity, not by force, but from pure conviction, they become other men."
- "1857, D. Urquhart, The Rebellion of India, London: D. Bryce, “Mr. Disraeli’s Speech Reviewed,” p. 14, I would now ask what results could follow from enforcing on the Indian army the biting of a substance [i.e. cow grease on gunpowder cartridges] which they could not place between their lips without losing caste, and becoming objects of abhorrence to their co-religionaries, their friends and their families […]"
- "An uncle of mine in Delhi thinks that I have become polluted, that I have lost caste by working with leather."
- "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery."
- "[…] I don’t know but that an instructor may lose caste by eating among a miscellany of undergraduates."
- "Why, with others present, it would be worse than if I had accused him of raping an old woman […] Bledsoe would disintegrate, disinflate! With a profound sigh he’d drop his head in shame. He’d lose caste. The weekly newspapers would attack him. […] His rivals would denounce him as a bad example for the youth."